Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] iPhone - my brief review

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 7/1/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> We have an Apple store in the Mall of America (MoA; I live about 8 miles
> away from MoA in Minneapolis).  They started showing off the new iPhone on
> Friday at 6:00 pm.  I waited about 24 hours and then went down to see what
> was up.  They had a large table -- maybe 4' wide and 8' long -- with
> iPhones all around the perimeter attached by wires to the table.  It only
> took a few minutes before I got in there and started handling an iPhone.

I haven't dared try that yet. Maybe next weekend.

> Here's what I think:
>
> (1) it has a spectacular interface, even better than I thought from seeing
> it on TV, etc.  They have a lot of cool ideas.

There have now been a bunch of YouTube videos and the like, which make
it obvious that the interface works exactly as it was hyped, which is
impressive. Indeed, it doesn't matter if you buy an iPhone or not,
because all of the cell phone makers are secretly (or not so secretly)
panicked and working on their own similar products:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/technology/02cellphone.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

> (2) the one I was using was defective and most apps would work for only a
> few seconds before crashing -- totally unstable.  I showed it to the
> worker and he agreed that it was defective.
>
> So, I don't know about "2" -- is that a common problem for the iPhone or
> was mine a 1-in-a-million defect?

Or maybe it was caused by 1 million monkeys pounding away on the thing
over the past couple of days? :-)

> I have no idea.  But right now it isn't
> important to me because I'm not buying an iPhone.  Maybe someday.

In the DC area, the device of choice is clearly the Blackberry, and
the iPhone doesn't really compete with it. Apparently, the most
obvious audience for it are "hip" people who like stylish things, and
carry around both an iPod and a cell phone. Getting and iPhone thus
reduces their device count by one, and if it allows them to read email
and look at the web a bit, well that's awesome, too.

It's pretty clear that there are potentially millions of such people,
but maybe not tens or hundreds of millions. Yet.

jking

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